Globalization has resulted in increase in availability and diversity of food, not necessarily making access to food universal. This kind of phenomenon is more visible in urban areas where food preferences are influenced by the purchasing power of individual among high income groups. With the coming in of large multinational fast-food and supermarket chains, there is competition for market share of food purchasers.

1. GLOBALIZATION
IN EATING HABITS

2. Introduction
 Globalization refers to the way in which developments in one
region can rapidly come to have significant consequences for
the security and well-being of communities in quite distant
regions of the globe. (McGrew, 2000)
 It is expansion and intensification of connections and
movements of people, goods, capital, ideas and culture,
between/among countries.
It offers growth prospects to national economies (International
Monetary Fund, 1997).

4. Globalization Vs Food Habits
 Globalization has resulted in increase in
availability and diversity of food, not necessarily
making access to food universal.
 This kind of phenomenon is more visible in urban areas where food
preferences are influenced by the purchasing power of individual
among high income groups.
 With the coming in of large multinational fast-food and
supermarket chains, there is competition for market share of food
purchasers.

5. Globalization in
eating habits
Urbanization
Increasing
incomes
Foreign direct
investments
Market
liberalization

6. Positive effects of Globalization
 Large scale companies that once only outsourced to western
countries are now trading their goods all over the world.
 People can also now be connected to any part of the world due
to instant internet connections, making communication faster
and easier with webcams and instant chat as oppose to paper
mail.
 Increased media coverage is also drawing attention to human
rights and violation issues all over the world, which ultimately
leads to a larger scale of improvement of these concerns.

7. Negative effects of Globalization
 Exploitation of labor
 Adverse effect on the countries’ economy
 Adverse health effects
 Medical conditions like Obesity,
Cardio-vascular diseases, Diabetes
 Low nutrient intake
 Decrease in popularity of Traditional foods

9. The Spread of American
Fast Food in Asia
 American restaurant chains have been opening their doors
more and more during the last five years. Wherever you go, if
you are traveling in your car, you can see McDonalds, Pizza
Hut and Burger King.
 The influence is so big that now they are opening new fast
food restaurants; but instead of selling American food, they
are selling traditional Amercanized food. So they have taken
the concept of these famous places, but adapted it to the
original country's food.

10. New challenges and opportunities
Local culture and food traditions are
disappearing
For most countries, micronutrient deficiencies are
of concern.
Undernutrition and food insecurity
Diet related non-communicable diseases
(NCDs), principally obesity, coronary heart
disease, diabetes and hypertension

11. Changing Food Culture In India
 During the 1980s, consumption of both animal and vegetable
products, the largest proportional increase was in the
consumption of milk.
 The 1980s also saw an increase in the consumption of spices
and oil crops.
 The 1990s, among vegetable products, there were large
increases in the consumption of rice pulses and cereals has
declined.
 The use of wheat in the diet is changing as well, since there is
a move away from the traditional chapatti to more
commercialized bread products similar to those found in the
west.

13. McDonalds case study
 McDonald fast food restaurants are
found in 119 countries.
 It serves 58 million people daily and operates in 31000 restaurants
worldwide. The company is operated by affiliate, franchise or
corporation itself (Changkyu, 2010).
 McDonalds foods are popular in many countries as a result of
media and internet advertisements. Through aggressive marketing
campaigns targeting consumer wants and needs through internet
and media has contributed a lot to the growth of McDonald foods
in the world. The company is popular because of its unique western
taste of fast food French fries which have specialized ingredients
such as sweet, sour taste ketchup (John, 1998).

14. KFC case study
 Kentucky fried chicken (KFC)
is world largest chain of fried chicken
restaurants.
 Its headquarters are in Louisville United States. The company
has over 17000 branches in over 105 countries worldwide.
The biggest markets of its fried chicken are in China and
United States of America.
 Through the use of internet and media, the company has been
able to market itself globally. Also, in the media adverts, its
products have been displayed as a modern way of eating
habits.

15. Conclusion
 Globalization has had its plus points in attempting to converge
nations into a ‘Global village’, it has been equally responsible
in creating further divide among nations.
 Coordination between agriculture, education, health and
nutrition is essential to provide favorable environments and
appropriate messages for maintaining or recreating healthy
food cultures.
 Efforts must be made to build alternate measures to sustain
and preserve the local cuisines and cultures that aim at
reviving indigenous foods.

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